An electronic payments processor on Friday launched a patent infringement suit against AT&T Corp. in Illinois, accusing the telecom giant and its affiliates of unlawfully leeching off a patented payment collection system through its Express Pay payment service.

Two U.S. congressmen said Friday they were concerned that Verizon Communications Inc. and Verizon Wireless were requiring customers to opt out of rather than affirmatively opt in to programs that share information about them to aid advertising efforts.

AT&T Inc. on Thursday expanded the timeline for its planned $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA Inc. by three months while it battles antitrust suits from the U.S. government and rivals Sprint Nextel Corp. and C Spire Wireless Inc.

An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday declined to toss part of a class action brought by a group of cable installers against Comcast Corp. over their employment classification, ruling the installers had sufficiently stated a claim under the Illinois Employee Classification Act.

Growth-focused private equity firm The Riverside Co. has teamed up with German private equity firm Halder to buy Hanover, Germany-based Internet communication solutions company Keymile Group from its former CEO and from Hannover Finanz Group, Riverside said Thursday.

Viacom International Inc. on Wednesday moved to prevent Time Warner Cable Inc. from introducing their state court dispute over programming content into Viacom’s federal court suit alleging Time Warner violated their distribution contracts by streaming Viacom's copyrighted content on iPads.

Television broadcasting company Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. will purchase the broadcast assets of media company Freedom Communications Inc. for $385 million in a deal that will expand Sinclair's growing portfolio and help Freedom cut its debt, the companies said Wednesday.

Former creditors of FairPoint Communications Inc. slapped Verizon Communications Inc. with a $2 billion fraudulent transfer suit Friday in North Carolina, claiming the telecom giant drove FairPoint to bankruptcy by luring it into the "disastrous" purchase of outdated telephone infrastructure.

News Corp. and DirecTV Group Inc. reached an agreement Monday that will keep Fox cable and broadcast channels on the satellite broadcaster's service, ending a contentious negotiating process and resolving a contract dispute just before a deadline expired.

Viacom Inc. units BET Networks and MTV Networks were hit with a copyright and trademark infringement suit in California on Friday by rival TV One LLC, which claims they acquired and BET broadcast exclusive coverage of the Essence Music Festival without permission.

When Shearman & Sterling LLP partner Christa D'Alimonte was a young associate she didn't think of herself as a deal broker, but a decade later she would be known as a steady-handed negotiator in one of the most watched media conglomerate splits in history, the $50 billion separation of Viacom Inc. and CBS Broadcasting Inc., landing her a spot on Law360's list of Top Female Deal Makers.

A public interest group targeted Verizon Wireless in a Federal Trade Commission complaint Friday, alleging the company is engaging in unfair and deceptive trade practices by collecting and distributing its customers' personal information to other companies without their consent.

A DirecTV Group Inc. executive complained to the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday about Fox Broadcasting Co. Inc., saying it is running misleading advertisements in the midst of the two companies' dispute over cable programming.

A California federal judge refused Wednesday to dismiss MetroPCS Wireless Inc.'s price-fixing claims in multidistrict litigation against a slew of display-panel makers, ruling that the statute of limitations for the Illinois antitrust claims had not expired.

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